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  • UN Intervening in Texas Death Penalty Case

    07/01/2011 2:17:34 PM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 33 replies
    UN Dispatch ^ | July 1, 2011 | Mark Leon Goldberg
    On July 7, Humberto Leal Garcia, Jr is scheduled to die. He was convicted in a Texas court in 1994 of rape and murder–a capital offense for which he was sentenced to death. But this case is different from other Texas death penalty cases for the fact that Leal is a Mexican citizen. When he was arrested, he was denied the right under international law to contact the Mexican consulate. In 2004, Mexico sued the United States at the International Court of Justice for denying one of its citizens the his right under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. The...